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| The United States has accused four Chinese military infiltrators of violating the numbers of the United States |
Prosecutor William Barr said on Monday: The United States accused four Chinese military infiltrators of breaking into Equifax in 2017. About 150 million US citizens were affected.
"This is a deliberate and complete breach of the American people," said Barr, one of the biggest data breaches in American history. "This data is of economic value and these robberies will enhance China's ability to develop artificial intelligence tools." Chinese People's Liberation Army.
The news is the latest attack by the US authorities to eliminate Chinese espionage. Since 2018, the United States has arrested an increasing number of Chinese government officials, businessmen, and academics suspected of overseeing American secrets.
Equifax, which affected nearly 147 million people, infiltrated the social security numbers and led the licensing data, among others. The hackers spent weeks with Equifax, breaking into computer networks, stealing business secrets and personal information. Then they completed about 9,000 applications, registered names, birth dates, and social security numbers for about half of American citizens. Hackers have used about 34 servers in 20 countries to direct traffic to block their real sites.
Given the large number of Americans in sensitive financial data and information, the violation has had a major impact on Equifax and the consumer credit industry. The company agreed to pay up to $ 700 million to resolve allegations of data breach and pay the consumers concerned.
In a statement issued on Monday (Monday), Equifax thanked the Ministry of Justice for its "unremitting efforts" and said that "cyber crime is one of the greatest threats to our country. And it will continue to face this ongoing battle." : "This challenge has become increasingly difficult to work with well-funded participants outside the rule of law."